Non-invasive blood sampling from primates using laboratory-bred blood-sucking bugs (dipetalogaster maximus; Reduviidae, Heteroptera)

Primates

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 397-400

  Thomsen, Ruth ^a   Voigt, Christian C ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR ZOO AND WILDLIFE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood sampling; Bug; Dipetalogaster maximus; New technique; Stress free

Indexed keywords

DIPETALOGASTER MAXIMUS; HETEROPTERA; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; MICROCEBUS MURINUS; PAN PANISCUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PONGO PYGMAEUS ABELII; PRIMATES; REDUVIIDAE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; FEMALE; HOMINID; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSIMIAN; STRESS; TRIATOMINAE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD SPECIMEN COLLECTION; CHEIROGALEIDAE; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; MALE; STRESS; TRIATOMINAE;

EID: 39049194971     PISSN: 00328332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10329-006-0194-8     Document Type: Article

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